BILLS of Mortality, are accounts of the numbers of births and burials within a certain district, every week, month, quarter, or year. In this sense we say weekly bills,
bills, monthly bills, quarterly bills, yearly bills. The London bills of mortality, which were the first, are composed by the company of parish-clerks, and express the number of christenings of each sex, and the number of deaths from each disease.
BILL of Parcels, an account given by the seller to the buyer, containing the particulars of all the sorts and prices of goods bought.
BILL of Sale, is when a person wanting a sum of money delivers goods as a security to the lender, to whom he gives his bill, empowering him to sell the goods, in case the sum borrowed is not repaid, with interest at the appointed time.
BILL of Store, a license granted at the custom-house to merchants, by which they have liberty to carry, custom-free, all such stores and provisions as they may have occasion for during the voyage.
BILL of Sufferance, a license granted to a merchant, at the custom-house, suffering him to trade from one English port to another without paying custom.